Dr. Brent Thoma

Dr. Brent Thoma is an emergency and trauma physician in the Saskatchewan Health Authority and a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. His previous roles include competence committee chair, competence by design lead and program director with the University of Saskatchewan’s emergency medicine residency program; he has also worked with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as a clinician educator and chair of the clinician educator area of focused competence.

As a researcher, Dr. Thoma focuses on technology-enhanced medical education, which includes online educational resources, simulation and learning analytics. His recent work has focused on the visualization of assessment data for personal and organizational development. Dr. Thoma recently completed his PhD studies focusing on the use of competency-based assessment data for organizational development.

Dr. Thoma trained in the founding cohort of the University of Saskatchewan's emergency medicine residency program. He has also completed a simulation fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital and earned master’s degrees in both leadership (Royal Roads University) and health professions education (Massachusetts General Hospital Institute).